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Hey!
Im a newbie to linux and i heard that Arch is a i686-optimized Linux distribution so i think it sounds intresting!
I wanna have a dualboot system with XP and Arch on a 60Gb disk. I have allocated 10Gb for XP, how much space should Arch have? (i want a separate partition where i can have some movies and music on, not on XP or Arch.) Can you help me to setup my partitions? Does Arch installation include Bootloader? if not how do i install a bootloader?
Other questions:
- Does my ipw3945 work fine with Arch? and is it easy to work with my Netgear 614WGRv6 router? (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … up#ipw3945)
- Does my ATI x1300 work fine on Arch?
- Any other things i should think about before i install Arch?
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A lot of questions to you folks but i will give you alot och thanks for helping me with this!
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how big is your hard drive?
i would use
10gb xp
10gb arch <some say have boot partition seperate i dont , its your choice<
xx gb swap (2x amount of ram)
whatever is left for storage
yes arch comes with bootloaders grub or lilo by default are your choices there are plenty of other bootloaders/managers to choose from on the net search bootloader on the wiki
i cant answer your other questions as i dont have that hardware
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I have total 60Gb.. Is it possible to have a about 40Gb partition that XP AND Arch could storage music, movies, programs and games on?
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Yes of course: just format it in FAT32 so that can be read and written both from Arch and win xp.... I don't know if the writing support for NTFS is mature now, I'm sure other forum members will be able to let us know.
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Hm I'd use ext3 for the file partition. Windows drivers are available (ext2 drivers read/write ext3 as well).
/e btw how much ram do you have. 2x ram for swap could be a bit large. i havent even used my swap so far (1gb ram - 1gb swap) and if you ever need it you can create a file which does the job. saves you some disk space.
Last edited by a1ex (2007-02-18 13:38:19)
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I left Arch and instead i installed Ubuntu... sorry guys but Arch was difficult in some steps in the installation:
- set root password (where?? in the installation i newer saw the /etc/locale.gen..)
- config the network (i have a NetGearWGR614v6 router who gives me dynamic IP and i want a wireless connection to the router)
- When i tryed to installed the bootloader got error (i tryed installing on every partition i had) I had Mandriva Lilo bootloader installed on one of my Linux partitions (maybe on XP partition?) since i had Mandriva
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IPW3495 is supported under linux (Intel OSS project), so it should work under Arch too .
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naaaah i cant make it work hehe!
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